UPCOMING EVENTS, SPRING 2026
UPCOMING EVENTS, APRIL 2026 Saturday, April 4, 1pm Eugene Public Library 100 West 10th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97401 Wednesday, April 8, 7pm PRAx for Earth Words Detrick Hall Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon Saturday, April 11, 2pm AXPONA – Audio Expo North America Expo Hall Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center Schaumburg, Illinois Saturday, April 18, 11am The Poetry Stage Los
Memory to Magnificence The Epic Imagination of Garrett Hongo’s Lost Home TEOW LIM GOH
Garrett Hongo was born in Volcano, a village next to the crater of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii, in 1951, a fourth-generation Japanese American whose ancestors migrated to the islands as shopkeepers and cane cutters. When he was eight months old, his parents lost his grandfather’s general store and moved to Kahuku, a sugar plantation town in
An Ocean of Clouds
The title poem of my new book appeared in the New Yorker on June 2, 2025. Link to audio recording provided as well. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/an-ocean-of-clouds-garrett-hongo-poem
In Retrospect: An Interview with Garrett Hongo, Author of Ocean of Clouds By Frontier Poetry | September 17, 2025
Welcome to “In Retrospect,” our interview series which asks renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out their poetic processes. From their early writing to their most recent collection, we’re looking to hear about core poems and fascinations which have shaped their body of work. In this interview, a poet whose work we deeply admire